good quality medium 1.25" eyepiece?

[Gem]

Hi all,

I have a selection of plossl eyepieces (12.5mm celestron; 26mm Sirius; 32mm Televue) and a nagler 4.8mm. What I think I need to a top quality eyepiece around 20mm. It needs to be 1.25". Any suggestions from people's experience??

[koputai]

Umm, what kind of scope? How is it mounted? What do you like looking at?

Cheers,
Jason.

[Gem]

Scope tba!! hehe
I was hoping to get an 11 inch SCT. At present I have an 80mm f/5 refractor.

[Gem]

Oopps... forgot to add eq mounted (CGEM 1100).

[MikeyB]

Can't go wrong with the 19mm Televue Panoptic, IMHO. Works a treat in an SCT too.

[Globular3]

Try the GSO Superview from Andrews Communications in Sydney. Great value. They have a 15mm and a 20mm. I'm very happy with my 15mm. Check out the website.

[ausastronomer]

Hi Grant,

Some of the cheaper and mid priced eyepieces work fine in slow focal ratio scopes but unfortunately they perform very poorly in fast focal ratio newtonians and refractors. I suggest you work out which scope you are going to buy and then get eyepieces that suit the scope.

Cheers,
John B

[Gem]

I am looking at getting a CGEM 1100. Have just emailed Andrews for availability and price once all the extras are added. I will be getting a focal reducer with it. With my current eyepieces, there is a major gap between 12.5mm and 26mm. In addition, my best current eyepieces are the Nagler - which is a 4.8mm - and the Televue Plossl - which is 32mm - so I am wanting a quality eyepiece in the middle (18-20mm).

Does anyone have both a 19mm Panoptic and a GSO superview to compare quality? Obviously the Televue will be better, but HOW much better is it?

[koputai]

In my experience the Superviews are attrocious in scopes faster than about f/7.

As John says, you really need to have the scope in your hot little hands before considering the eyepieces.

Cheers,
Jason.

[Waxing_Gibbous]

For an SCT:
20mm or 22mm Nagler.
Anything else is just talk. :D

[Waxing_Gibbous]

OK.
Maybe a Vixen LVW22 or a 17 Ethos.
I haven't yet tried the ES's, but they're supposed to be pretty good also.
But you get the point.
No rubbish.

[Gem]

Aren't they 2" eyepieces? I will have a 1.25" star diagonal.